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Chicago examiner i the weather r jt for Chicago and vicinity fair y wednesday thursday increasing cloudiness moderate temperature ft variable winds shifting to south jp erly vol viii no 61 a m wednesday march 2 1910 16 pages d . ss Â«&-,_ price one cent Â»Â«Â»--_-- y cam 30 cent per month llinois is first of northern states to approve 101 tax amendment police take hypnotized man can't wake him 6,000,000 orphan finds home at last train is buried in mountains by a snowslide scores of sleeping passengers reported killed pinchot never had a right to criticise Taft says wilson subject put to sleep by phone performer refuses to come to rescue â€¢Â» guardians war over billie mcclintock is ended by judge cutting scene in the canyon in the cascade mountains in which a train was buried ly an avalanche and sketch of the disaster saginaw mich march i on com plaint of prominent citizens and the humane society the police at midnight re . moved from the show window of a saginaw 1 music house david anderson a young mttn i who had lain in a trance for fifty-six hours under the hypnotic influence of a man calling himself professor powers to day the authorities have a hypnotized man ou their hands whom they are trying to arouse but who is insensible to every de vice employed and who lies like oue dead in a room in the wesley hotel the subject was to have been kept in the window until to-night and then re moved to a local theater where it was advertised the hypnotist would awaken him anderson was put under the hypnotic spell saturday evening by long-distance tel ephone from lansing powers was communicated with to-day at chesaning where he appeared last night but he declined to awaken the subject by the telephone and refused to come to the assistance of the police it is said powers will be promptly ar rested upon his arrival here unless he im mediately reports to the wesley hotel and brings the youth out of his long trance dr w p mowry was summoned and after a careful examination found the young man in fairly good condition with reasonably strong heart action and regular breathing - the front car on a northwestern ele vated train left the tracks at tan buren street and fifth avenue late last night and narrowly escaped plunging into the street hundreds of persons passengers on the train and on a Chicago & oak park ete vated train took their lives in their hands when they were compelled to pick their way over the elevated structure avoid the third rail and climb to the station plat form following the accident just as the northwestern train was mak ing the turn from van buren street to fifth avenue the car left the track the motor bumped along the ties for several feet before the motorman could bring hr's train to a stop and then hung perilously near the edge of the elevated structure passengers most of whom had been to the theaters were badly jostled and there was much excitement but no one was in jured the oak park train was following close behind the northwestern train the passengers walked to the la salle street station all trains were delayed for some time northwestern and oak park trains were switched to the south side and metropoli tan side of the loop and more than the usual delay on account of the â€¢ crowded condition of the tracks resulted the accident was caused by a wornout curve officials o ' the loop knew that the curve was dange^us and a new curve was on the structure t^dy to be installed during the night when the northwestern car left the track and aa it was bumping along the ties it struck a keg of bolts weighing 800 pounds that was standing on the side of the track the keg fell with a crash to the street policeman conrad schmidt of the central detail who was passing nar rowly escaped injury train rolls into river tito dead and one missing in l'ena 87-lvanla wreck newcastle pa march _.'â€” one man was instantly killed one died another is unaccounted for and believed to be dead and nearly a score of others had narrow escapes when the lines - lue passenger train of the pennsylvania railroad jumped the track at rock point park this evening and plunged down a fifteen-foot embank ment into the ice-filled beaver river the engineer and fireman of the train were carried into the river with the locomotive and were rescued by means of a long hose the eifglne now lies submerged in the bot tom of the river w lallie a detective of sharon and harry main a trackwalker were killed and earl ray baggageman is missing reward for bernstorff kaiser confers order on german antbasnador who won paet special cable to the examiner berlin germany march i emperor william to-day conferred the order of the red eagle second class upon count born storff presumably in recognition of the work which the german ambassador at washington did iu connection with the re cent tariff negotiations and which resulted ln an agreement between germany and the united statea will live in kenilworth house concurs in the resolu tion adopted by the sen ate on feb 9 aunt julia shedpard will be mother to boy reichman to supervise business secretary flatly contradicts former forester when he declares the dolliver let ter was authorized waterway bill killed Chicago election reforms smothered government by commission defeated ballinger foe assumed au . thority in reflecting on the head of nation declares cabinet officer _* men meet as they exchange places on witness stand but no sign of recognition is passed between them astors parted forever wife will asfe for a final deer of divorce new york march i mrs john jacob jiistor through her attorneys will on fri day ask for a final decree of divorce to day a note of issue for a motion to make permanent the interlocutory decree she ob tained more than three mouths ago was filed iu the supreme court in rockland county the application will come up be fore judge mills on friday this action disposes definitely of the rumor that the ystors were to be reconciled a friend of mrs astor asked if she believed mrs astor had any intention of marrying abroad said mrs astor is a young and very beautiful woman she has been un happy for a number of years ln her mar ried life and there is no reason why she would not marry again if she so chooses water bill angers hill elevated coach is derailed at curve washington d c march 1.-gifford pinchot thought he had permission from secretary wilson his superior to writ the letter to senator dolliver in which he took issue with president Taft over th dismissal of louis r glavis from the pub lic service secreary wilson gave pinchot perraissloa to write to dolliver on purely departmental matters but never did give him and never would have given him permisrfon to write a letter criticising the president of the united states in these respects stated generally the testimony of the secretary of agriculture and that of the former chief of the for estry service clashed before the balliuger pinchot investigating committee this after noon the climax of a day full of inci dent mr pinchot tried apparently by every means ln his power to avoid telliug the committee what transpired between him self and secretary wilson just prior to the reading of his famou*s letter on the floor of the senate situation seems painful it was evidently distaste to '< :^| eh ot to be compelled to say under on s a statement made by his form cbici^b untrue the situation was one of vi^h pain to the aged cabinet officer who m summoned from a meeting of the t'nbi^b to give his testimony in accordance witlfl request to be heard when mr fmucjh should reach that part of bis testimo^h dealing with the dolliver letter jm upon the arrival of secretary wilsorh chairman nelson asked mr pinchot if thev contents were knowa to secretary wilso^j when the letter to serator dolmver>f_r sent mr pinchot told the chairman that he would not answer unless dtrecte^to by vote of the committee the committee unanimously decided tbut he must nswer it began bald mr pinchot when overton w price associate forester went to secretary wilson and toid him of hi participation in the publication of the facts alleged to be damaging to secretary ball lnger and offered to resign later sec retary wilson and i discussed senator dolllver's right as chairman of the com jmittee on agriculture to call for informa tion secretary wilson then said we will have no trouble regarding executive order no 1142 this is the order regarding the restriction ou correspondence betweea subordinate officers of the departments and members of congress believed he had consent i believed then that i had the secre tary's consent to write the letter as i had described its purport to him i ex plained to him that the opponents of tbs conservation policy were inclined to mag nify the offenses of price and shaw in this matter the secretary was strong j ly against tho letter on the ground that totm us to take the initiative io this wouloh render the service subject to investigation i was anxious that our reply should bml made public at the same time that the brief which was being prepared by attor i ney general wickersham supporting sec i retary ballinger came out ] i then believed him to be in favor of j my defense of price and shaw i left his i office that day convinced that he favored i the letter that was january 3 and nofj january 4 as expressed in the president's letter dismissing me from the service 1 january 6 senator dolliver received my 1 letter that same day i weut to the de j partment of agriculture at uoon to see_b the secretary i took with me the reporlÃŸ of price and shaw the secretary j j fl not in when i called i took with â– >'.'â– besides the report a letter of transmission this is it h pinchot produces letter â– mr pinchot produced a letter from whicl^b the last paragraph had been lined out witl^b pencil the letter down to the last par.iw graph was a simple note of transmission the last three lines stated h i have sent the letter to senator t'^^h liver as we discussed it and inclose mm herewith a copy mr pinchot coutimuÃŸ it was between 2:30 and 3 o'clock wbh i found the secretary in the letter rmm senator dolliver had already been po^h duced and read in the senate mr wilful took the letter transmitting the price m shaw report and asked me to write i he said leave off the last lines erased them mr reese the s et il stenographer copied the letter in il of the lines to be cut out of the m secretary wilson said what is theh of referring to that that is wtfmmmm struck it wm | aa to tbj charg of diiretspect tom little blllle mecllntock sole heir to i fortune of 6,000,000 and probably the richest boy in his own right in Chicago to-day is to have a new home after mouths of litigation the bitter fight for the possession of the little fellow curly haired blue-eyed and winsome has ended in a drawn battle between his two guar dians attorney a f reichman and mrs julia sheppard little billie is going to move out to kenilworth out to mr reichman's home mrs sheppard his aunt julia ls going with him mrs sheppard will have the actual custody of the little millionaire mr reichman will look after his education and business affaire judge cutting in the probate court decided the matter yester day afternoon both guardiaus are satis fied little billie who in the least did not realize what it was all about it satis fied too it was a peculiar situation that confront ed judge cutting in deciding the question of little rillie's guardian william me cllntock the boy's father was killed in an automobile accident mr reichman had been the millionaire's legal adviser once mr mecllntock said to the lawyer if anything should happen to me i want you to stand between the world and that little boy of mine two guardians appointed it was not long after mr mcciintock's death before mrs mecllntock passed away mrs sheppard was a lifelong friend and after mr mcciintock's death had made her home with the widow take care of billie be a mother to him were almost the last words of mrs mecllntock addressed to mrs sheppard fr reichman and mrs sheppard were made joint guardians the boy millionaire was supremely happy his every wish was gratified except two he wanted his long curls out off and he wanted to run a great locomotive but all was not harmony between the guardians mr reichman objected to mr sheppard itus band of aunt julia and there were other things that did not exactly please him he went into court and demanded the removal of mrs sheppard and the ap pointment of himself as sole guardian of the boy and the mecllntock fortune the case has dragged along for months little billie has been often in court and he acted as though he enjoyed the ex perience he told judge cutting naively of his love for aunt julia and of many other things in bis young life child in mrs sheppard's custody yesterday there was a long conference in judge cutting's chambers there was an air of mystery thrown about the pro ceedings then judge cutting annouueed that the matter had been settled neither j guardian had anything to say both guardians will have the custody jof the child said judge cutting al though mrs sheppard will have the actual custody of the boy she will remove to kenilworth to the home of mr reichman so that they both may give their undivid ed attention to billie the matter has been agreed to by both guardians the mecllntock home at 2228 calumet avenue which mrs sheppard has kept up since mrs mcciintock's death probably will be sold mr sheppard will remove with his wife to attorney reichman's home john d jr quits steel rockefeller resigns froni direc torate of the trust new york march i the rockefeller interests in the united states steel cor poration went into eclipse to-day when john d rockefeller jr tired of having no voice in the company's affairs resigned as a director mr rockefeller's resignation wias accepted without ado and in his place was elected henry walters a baltimore railroad magnate and intimate of j pier po.it morgan the dropping out of the rockefeller ele ment in the steel trust was a signal triumph for mr morgan who ever since the trust was organized has succeeded in keeping the rockefellers from acquiring any strength in the corporation that would im peril his own position gordon not a senator veteran mis-lssipp'.nn made fare well address as private citizen washington march 1 â€” james g gordon the veteran mississippian who has been serving as united states senator by appointment for the past sixty days is no longer a member of that body de spite the fai't that senator-elect leroy percy has not yet taken the oath of office and qualified as a matter of fact mr gordon has actually not been a sen ator since february 23 the day upon which the legislature of mississippi chose mr percy to succeed mr gordon a day before gordon sang his famous swan song discovery of these interesting de tails was made here to-day gladstone made a viscount special cable to the examiner london march i herbert j glad stone governer general of united south africa who was recently elevated to the peerage haa been created a viscount passengers walk over loop third rail 800-lb keg of bolts falls to street railroad magnate protests payment for service at residence st paul minn march i james j hill strode angrily into the city water company's office and protested against a bill recently sent him mr hill gets a high water service at his residence on sum mit avenue st anthony hill at his gar deuer's greenhouses below the hill he gets low water service his gardener hitched the two systems together the high service pushed through the low service meter sev eral huddred feet per day whether the water on either service was in use or not the water company's inspectors with math ematical accuracy added to the increase on the high service the decrease on the low service mr hill claims the two fig ures should be subtracted â– what the Illinois general as i tembly did yesterday | house killed governor deneen's water | way plan by voting down the sclrmitt [ bfll | committee on klections smothered Chicago election reform bills house defeated bill providing for the commission form of government by one vote will reconsider to-day house concurred in resolution passed by senate approving of proposed amend ment to the united states constitution providing for an income tax springfield ill march 3 lllinois s jng at the head of the column of north err states to approve the proposed amend ment to the united states constitution pro viding for an income tax to-day when the lower house concurred in the resolution passed by the senate on february 9 the few states that have acted upon the sub ject all have been southern for that rea son and the interest that surrounds the question the attitude that the legislature would take was watched on all sides the amendment thus ratified follows article xvl the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes rom whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enu meration Â°Â° the resolution scraped through re ceiving only seventy-eight votes â€” one more than enough unless it is held that the ac tion comes within the classification requir ing s two-thirds vote in the latter case and acting speaker shanahan is looking it up the resolution failed it was declared carried subject to such an inquiry a number of representa tives failed to vote only eight voted against it Illinois action pleases Taft washington march i news of tie adoption by the Illinois legislature of the income tax amendment to the constitution 4-'s received in administration circles to Â«-Â» o h.t with great satisfaction and by none | more than by presdient Taft it can almost be said that the victory in Illinois was unexpected this was one of the states counted on by the interests opposed to an income tax despite the fact that governor deneen was known to favor it the hope is indulged by the president and his advisors that new york ohio and new jersey will now follow the load set by Illinois at all events au active cam paign is to be inaugurated with the presi dent virtually leading it to secure the adoption of the amendment by the neces sary number of states without delay the argument of senator root submitted to the new york legislature last night marks the beginning of this campaign it kcau be said on authority that the presi dent fully indorses the views of sen â– ator root further it is within the strict i truth to say that senator root might not have taken this stand when be did but for i the urging of the president who was de sirous that the argument recently made by senator borah ln the senate against gov ernor hughes views should oe supple mented in new york by one who is pre to speak with authority to his party followers who will shortly be called upon to act on the proposed amendment great northern limited struck by avalanche near the cascade tunnei nordica to debate on equal suffrage expel broker patterson san francisco march i a se attle dispatch says that not only is a great northern train buried in the snow but that the major portion of the town of wellington has been carried away with a loss of abont sixty lives singer challenges mrs gilbert . e jones of washington and is accepted board of trade managers act ou banurnpt trader o h patterson of the grain commission firm of o h patterson which failed on january 15 was expelled from the chi cago board of trade yesterday for making contracts with other members while his concern was insolvent directors of the board of trade also took up the question of grain dockage at the elevators and ad ministered a rebuke to members who have been violating the rules in insisting upon a dockage of one pound on each 1.000 pounds this the directors resolved is in violation of the spirit of the rules of this board which provide that the official certificate of weights of the board of trade shall be the basis of final settlement new york march i new tork ie to be treated to a battle royal between wom an suffrage and anti-suffrage the scene will be the debating platform with mme lillian nordica defending the interests of the former and mrs gilbert e jones up holding the antis mme nordica threw down the gauntlet to-day and her challenge has been accepted by mrs jones who is president of the na tional league for the civic education of women the antl-euffrage organization the challenge was made and accepted during a luncheon given at the home of mrs william salomon 1020 fifth avenue to mrs huntington denton of paris among the twenty fashionable women pres ent who heard and applauded the proposal were mrs herbert carpenter mrs rich ard lounsberry lillian hamilton french mrs george po haven jr mme guil bcrt and mrs james burden nordica issues challenge mme nordica had been ardently leading in a discussion of suffrage at her table mrs jones who was sittinf at another fable near enough to overhear the con versation arose before the luncheon was well over and announced that she had an important meetiug lo attend besides she said coming over to where madame nordica was sitting if i listened to you much longer my dear i am afraid i should be converted you ought to be answered the singer i think if you had ever had to work for your living or fight your way in the world as i have you would not need conversa tion i think you and i ought to have a debate on it i think i could get the bet ter of you that is a good idea said mrs jones mrs belmont to storm congress washington march i news has reached washington that on april 14 mrs o h p belmont will inarch upon con gress with a small army of suffragettes mid a demand for the passage of a resolu tion providing for an amendment to the constitution removing the ban against women as voters the hev anna shaw of philadelphia will ntteud the demonstration and deliver the chief address the district of colum bia suffragettes will be rallied for the oc casion among other features will be the presentation of a petition bearing a million signatures demanding the rij;tit f suffrage â€” tiiat is te say votes for women mrs beluiout and the rev mrs shaw it is understood will isk for a joint meet ing of congress at which to present their petition in order that one speech-making effort shall suffice if this i refused they will hold a public meeting on the capital steps there is no assurance eveu that the army will not storm the white house offices roosevelts flee fever fatal outbreak occurs day after departure for khartoum gondokoro soudan on the upper nile march i roosevelt luck attended the american hunters and scientists and this time they may be congratulated upon their escape from the african fever mr roosevelt and his associates sailed for khartoum yesterday dr roderic presch a french medical missionary who had lunched with mr roosevelt yesterday died of fever at noon to-day at a camp adjoining that occupied by the americans here an english sportsman is seriously ill and the district commissioner of gondo koro the british officials of which were active in entertaining their american guests has been stricken with the fever hesler case to shift 3 seati'lji wash march i marooned for seven days by snowslides in the cas cade mountains the seattle and spokane limited train on the great northern rail road was struck by an avalanche near wellington wash this mornih and was swept down the mountain side into a gorge where it is now buried under tons of tim ber earth and snow % at least twenty-three possibly forty of the fifty-oue passengers that were on the train when it left spokans were killed the heavy snows have broken the tele graph wires and while the railroad officials admit that several passengers have been killed it is feared that the greater number of those on the train have perished ; this report is strengthened by the fact that relief trains with scores or physicians and nurses on board have been rushed east from seattle and everett wash in an effort to reach the scene of the wreck fear passengers were trapped the railroad officials say that most of the passengers had been transferred to hotels in wellington before the landslide occurred and while efforts were being made to reopen the line but the fact that welllngr tou contains only half a dozen houses in creases the fear that nearly all the passen gers were still occupying the sleeping cars and were trapped in their births when the suowslide which occurred about 4:30 o'clock this morning swept down upon the train the only reports from the wreck have come by carriers from wellington by the way of scenic hot springs wellington is at the western portal of the cascade tunnel which pierces the cascades near their sum mit for a distance of two miles some of the passengers who reached scenic hot springs accompanied superin tendent o'neill when in a heroic effort to secure succor for those oo the train he started out saturday morning for welling ton fear rescuers perished among the others in the o'neill party were g w loveberry a pioneer resident and horseman of georgetown jesse wild er fireman on the great northern j w merritt of spokane former democratic leader in the house of representatives l c joseph of colvffle wash m l horn of wenatcheo j edward ilea of spokane an r a mclean of leavenworth it is now known that some of this party returned to the marooned train and pos 1 kill waterway and commission government i a staff correspondent hi'i'ind field 111 march i revolting against the policies of governor deneen the general assembly to-day burled his cherished waterway plan by killing the schmitt bill to-morrow it will make impossible ac complishment of a number of the enact ments for which be summoned it in special gessioo by adjourning sine die tremendous influence exercised from i washington contributed largely to this re l^ult how soon the governor will issue binother call for a special session to deal the neglected subjects and remedy conditions growing out of the recent su preme court decision in the joyce case is a matter of conjecture that another spe i oal session will follow is generally con ' ceded without question late april or early may is the period considered most likely i 1 the election reform bills for which elec tion officials of Chicago and numerous other cities have fought all winter were smothered lu committee opponents eared to let the bills go to the floor lest t'oeir own members break away on rollcall action to thwart deneen that the same course was not taken with the schmitt bill was due to a desire to avoid giving the governor the strategic advantage of boing able to say the lor imer force asphyxiated it in coai after the public had polled an affirniaii.e vote on the subject the negative spirit that pervaded the i mmm m mk 24 p a 9 e , 2d column dr ames transferred anld and robnctt await removal washington d c march l at the conclusion of the court-martials of pay master george p auld and dr a s rob nett the navy department announced that it would put a stop to the various contro versies at the boston navy yard by sepa rating the little coterie of officers that had been involved dr howard ames director t lie chelsea naval hospital who p led i the charges against auld and iu whose borne jiuld robnett and dr e s cowles ! became embroiled over an alleged insult to , miss dorothy hesler of Chicago dr rob nctt's fiancee teas been ordered to wash ington awaiting orders auld and robnett likewise have been placed awaiting orders for transfer continued on 2d page sth column pcfce wednesday tt il estate and financial section is rvjf rth looking over many excep f^a lal bargains in oity suburban v j d country j j real estate â‚¬

Chicago examiner i the weather r jt for Chicago and vicinity fair y wednesday thursday increasing cloudiness moderate temperature ft variable winds shifting to south jp erly vol viii no 61 a m wednesday march 2 1910 16 pages d . ss Â«&-,_ price one cent Â»Â«Â»--_-- y cam 30 cent per month llinois is first of northern states to approve 101 tax amendment police take hypnotized man can't wake him 6,000,000 orphan finds home at last train is buried in mountains by a snowslide scores of sleeping passengers reported killed pinchot never had a right to criticise Taft says wilson subject put to sleep by phone performer refuses to come to rescue â€¢Â» guardians war over billie mcclintock is ended by judge cutting scene in the canyon in the cascade mountains in which a train was buried ly an avalanche and sketch of the disaster saginaw mich march i on com plaint of prominent citizens and the humane society the police at midnight re . moved from the show window of a saginaw 1 music house david anderson a young mttn i who had lain in a trance for fifty-six hours under the hypnotic influence of a man calling himself professor powers to day the authorities have a hypnotized man ou their hands whom they are trying to arouse but who is insensible to every de vice employed and who lies like oue dead in a room in the wesley hotel the subject was to have been kept in the window until to-night and then re moved to a local theater where it was advertised the hypnotist would awaken him anderson was put under the hypnotic spell saturday evening by long-distance tel ephone from lansing powers was communicated with to-day at chesaning where he appeared last night but he declined to awaken the subject by the telephone and refused to come to the assistance of the police it is said powers will be promptly ar rested upon his arrival here unless he im mediately reports to the wesley hotel and brings the youth out of his long trance dr w p mowry was summoned and after a careful examination found the young man in fairly good condition with reasonably strong heart action and regular breathing - the front car on a northwestern ele vated train left the tracks at tan buren street and fifth avenue late last night and narrowly escaped plunging into the street hundreds of persons passengers on the train and on a Chicago & oak park ete vated train took their lives in their hands when they were compelled to pick their way over the elevated structure avoid the third rail and climb to the station plat form following the accident just as the northwestern train was mak ing the turn from van buren street to fifth avenue the car left the track the motor bumped along the ties for several feet before the motorman could bring hr's train to a stop and then hung perilously near the edge of the elevated structure passengers most of whom had been to the theaters were badly jostled and there was much excitement but no one was in jured the oak park train was following close behind the northwestern train the passengers walked to the la salle street station all trains were delayed for some time northwestern and oak park trains were switched to the south side and metropoli tan side of the loop and more than the usual delay on account of the â€¢ crowded condition of the tracks resulted the accident was caused by a wornout curve officials o ' the loop knew that the curve was dange^us and a new curve was on the structure t^dy to be installed during the night when the northwestern car left the track and aa it was bumping along the ties it struck a keg of bolts weighing 800 pounds that was standing on the side of the track the keg fell with a crash to the street policeman conrad schmidt of the central detail who was passing nar rowly escaped injury train rolls into river tito dead and one missing in l'ena 87-lvanla wreck newcastle pa march _.'â€” one man was instantly killed one died another is unaccounted for and believed to be dead and nearly a score of others had narrow escapes when the lines - lue passenger train of the pennsylvania railroad jumped the track at rock point park this evening and plunged down a fifteen-foot embank ment into the ice-filled beaver river the engineer and fireman of the train were carried into the river with the locomotive and were rescued by means of a long hose the eifglne now lies submerged in the bot tom of the river w lallie a detective of sharon and harry main a trackwalker were killed and earl ray baggageman is missing reward for bernstorff kaiser confers order on german antbasnador who won paet special cable to the examiner berlin germany march i emperor william to-day conferred the order of the red eagle second class upon count born storff presumably in recognition of the work which the german ambassador at washington did iu connection with the re cent tariff negotiations and which resulted ln an agreement between germany and the united statea will live in kenilworth house concurs in the resolu tion adopted by the sen ate on feb 9 aunt julia shedpard will be mother to boy reichman to supervise business secretary flatly contradicts former forester when he declares the dolliver let ter was authorized waterway bill killed Chicago election reforms smothered government by commission defeated ballinger foe assumed au . thority in reflecting on the head of nation declares cabinet officer _* men meet as they exchange places on witness stand but no sign of recognition is passed between them astors parted forever wife will asfe for a final deer of divorce new york march i mrs john jacob jiistor through her attorneys will on fri day ask for a final decree of divorce to day a note of issue for a motion to make permanent the interlocutory decree she ob tained more than three mouths ago was filed iu the supreme court in rockland county the application will come up be fore judge mills on friday this action disposes definitely of the rumor that the ystors were to be reconciled a friend of mrs astor asked if she believed mrs astor had any intention of marrying abroad said mrs astor is a young and very beautiful woman she has been un happy for a number of years ln her mar ried life and there is no reason why she would not marry again if she so chooses water bill angers hill elevated coach is derailed at curve washington d c march 1.-gifford pinchot thought he had permission from secretary wilson his superior to writ the letter to senator dolliver in which he took issue with president Taft over th dismissal of louis r glavis from the pub lic service secreary wilson gave pinchot perraissloa to write to dolliver on purely departmental matters but never did give him and never would have given him permisrfon to write a letter criticising the president of the united states in these respects stated generally the testimony of the secretary of agriculture and that of the former chief of the for estry service clashed before the balliuger pinchot investigating committee this after noon the climax of a day full of inci dent mr pinchot tried apparently by every means ln his power to avoid telliug the committee what transpired between him self and secretary wilson just prior to the reading of his famou*s letter on the floor of the senate situation seems painful it was evidently distaste to '< :^| eh ot to be compelled to say under on s a statement made by his form cbici^b untrue the situation was one of vi^h pain to the aged cabinet officer who m summoned from a meeting of the t'nbi^b to give his testimony in accordance witlfl request to be heard when mr fmucjh should reach that part of bis testimo^h dealing with the dolliver letter jm upon the arrival of secretary wilsorh chairman nelson asked mr pinchot if thev contents were knowa to secretary wilso^j when the letter to serator dolmver>f_r sent mr pinchot told the chairman that he would not answer unless dtrecte^to by vote of the committee the committee unanimously decided tbut he must nswer it began bald mr pinchot when overton w price associate forester went to secretary wilson and toid him of hi participation in the publication of the facts alleged to be damaging to secretary ball lnger and offered to resign later sec retary wilson and i discussed senator dolllver's right as chairman of the com jmittee on agriculture to call for informa tion secretary wilson then said we will have no trouble regarding executive order no 1142 this is the order regarding the restriction ou correspondence betweea subordinate officers of the departments and members of congress believed he had consent i believed then that i had the secre tary's consent to write the letter as i had described its purport to him i ex plained to him that the opponents of tbs conservation policy were inclined to mag nify the offenses of price and shaw in this matter the secretary was strong j ly against tho letter on the ground that totm us to take the initiative io this wouloh render the service subject to investigation i was anxious that our reply should bml made public at the same time that the brief which was being prepared by attor i ney general wickersham supporting sec i retary ballinger came out ] i then believed him to be in favor of j my defense of price and shaw i left his i office that day convinced that he favored i the letter that was january 3 and nofj january 4 as expressed in the president's letter dismissing me from the service 1 january 6 senator dolliver received my 1 letter that same day i weut to the de j partment of agriculture at uoon to see_b the secretary i took with me the reporlÃŸ of price and shaw the secretary j j fl not in when i called i took with â– >'.'â– besides the report a letter of transmission this is it h pinchot produces letter â– mr pinchot produced a letter from whicl^b the last paragraph had been lined out witl^b pencil the letter down to the last par.iw graph was a simple note of transmission the last three lines stated h i have sent the letter to senator t'^^h liver as we discussed it and inclose mm herewith a copy mr pinchot coutimuÃŸ it was between 2:30 and 3 o'clock wbh i found the secretary in the letter rmm senator dolliver had already been po^h duced and read in the senate mr wilful took the letter transmitting the price m shaw report and asked me to write i he said leave off the last lines erased them mr reese the s et il stenographer copied the letter in il of the lines to be cut out of the m secretary wilson said what is theh of referring to that that is wtfmmmm struck it wm | aa to tbj charg of diiretspect tom little blllle mecllntock sole heir to i fortune of 6,000,000 and probably the richest boy in his own right in Chicago to-day is to have a new home after mouths of litigation the bitter fight for the possession of the little fellow curly haired blue-eyed and winsome has ended in a drawn battle between his two guar dians attorney a f reichman and mrs julia sheppard little billie is going to move out to kenilworth out to mr reichman's home mrs sheppard his aunt julia ls going with him mrs sheppard will have the actual custody of the little millionaire mr reichman will look after his education and business affaire judge cutting in the probate court decided the matter yester day afternoon both guardiaus are satis fied little billie who in the least did not realize what it was all about it satis fied too it was a peculiar situation that confront ed judge cutting in deciding the question of little rillie's guardian william me cllntock the boy's father was killed in an automobile accident mr reichman had been the millionaire's legal adviser once mr mecllntock said to the lawyer if anything should happen to me i want you to stand between the world and that little boy of mine two guardians appointed it was not long after mr mcciintock's death before mrs mecllntock passed away mrs sheppard was a lifelong friend and after mr mcciintock's death had made her home with the widow take care of billie be a mother to him were almost the last words of mrs mecllntock addressed to mrs sheppard fr reichman and mrs sheppard were made joint guardians the boy millionaire was supremely happy his every wish was gratified except two he wanted his long curls out off and he wanted to run a great locomotive but all was not harmony between the guardians mr reichman objected to mr sheppard itus band of aunt julia and there were other things that did not exactly please him he went into court and demanded the removal of mrs sheppard and the ap pointment of himself as sole guardian of the boy and the mecllntock fortune the case has dragged along for months little billie has been often in court and he acted as though he enjoyed the ex perience he told judge cutting naively of his love for aunt julia and of many other things in bis young life child in mrs sheppard's custody yesterday there was a long conference in judge cutting's chambers there was an air of mystery thrown about the pro ceedings then judge cutting annouueed that the matter had been settled neither j guardian had anything to say both guardians will have the custody jof the child said judge cutting al though mrs sheppard will have the actual custody of the boy she will remove to kenilworth to the home of mr reichman so that they both may give their undivid ed attention to billie the matter has been agreed to by both guardians the mecllntock home at 2228 calumet avenue which mrs sheppard has kept up since mrs mcciintock's death probably will be sold mr sheppard will remove with his wife to attorney reichman's home john d jr quits steel rockefeller resigns froni direc torate of the trust new york march i the rockefeller interests in the united states steel cor poration went into eclipse to-day when john d rockefeller jr tired of having no voice in the company's affairs resigned as a director mr rockefeller's resignation wias accepted without ado and in his place was elected henry walters a baltimore railroad magnate and intimate of j pier po.it morgan the dropping out of the rockefeller ele ment in the steel trust was a signal triumph for mr morgan who ever since the trust was organized has succeeded in keeping the rockefellers from acquiring any strength in the corporation that would im peril his own position gordon not a senator veteran mis-lssipp'.nn made fare well address as private citizen washington march 1 â€” james g gordon the veteran mississippian who has been serving as united states senator by appointment for the past sixty days is no longer a member of that body de spite the fai't that senator-elect leroy percy has not yet taken the oath of office and qualified as a matter of fact mr gordon has actually not been a sen ator since february 23 the day upon which the legislature of mississippi chose mr percy to succeed mr gordon a day before gordon sang his famous swan song discovery of these interesting de tails was made here to-day gladstone made a viscount special cable to the examiner london march i herbert j glad stone governer general of united south africa who was recently elevated to the peerage haa been created a viscount passengers walk over loop third rail 800-lb keg of bolts falls to street railroad magnate protests payment for service at residence st paul minn march i james j hill strode angrily into the city water company's office and protested against a bill recently sent him mr hill gets a high water service at his residence on sum mit avenue st anthony hill at his gar deuer's greenhouses below the hill he gets low water service his gardener hitched the two systems together the high service pushed through the low service meter sev eral huddred feet per day whether the water on either service was in use or not the water company's inspectors with math ematical accuracy added to the increase on the high service the decrease on the low service mr hill claims the two fig ures should be subtracted â– what the Illinois general as i tembly did yesterday | house killed governor deneen's water | way plan by voting down the sclrmitt [ bfll | committee on klections smothered Chicago election reform bills house defeated bill providing for the commission form of government by one vote will reconsider to-day house concurred in resolution passed by senate approving of proposed amend ment to the united states constitution providing for an income tax springfield ill march 3 lllinois s jng at the head of the column of north err states to approve the proposed amend ment to the united states constitution pro viding for an income tax to-day when the lower house concurred in the resolution passed by the senate on february 9 the few states that have acted upon the sub ject all have been southern for that rea son and the interest that surrounds the question the attitude that the legislature would take was watched on all sides the amendment thus ratified follows article xvl the congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes rom whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enu meration Â°Â° the resolution scraped through re ceiving only seventy-eight votes â€” one more than enough unless it is held that the ac tion comes within the classification requir ing s two-thirds vote in the latter case and acting speaker shanahan is looking it up the resolution failed it was declared carried subject to such an inquiry a number of representa tives failed to vote only eight voted against it Illinois action pleases Taft washington march i news of tie adoption by the Illinois legislature of the income tax amendment to the constitution 4-'s received in administration circles to Â«-Â» o h.t with great satisfaction and by none | more than by presdient Taft it can almost be said that the victory in Illinois was unexpected this was one of the states counted on by the interests opposed to an income tax despite the fact that governor deneen was known to favor it the hope is indulged by the president and his advisors that new york ohio and new jersey will now follow the load set by Illinois at all events au active cam paign is to be inaugurated with the presi dent virtually leading it to secure the adoption of the amendment by the neces sary number of states without delay the argument of senator root submitted to the new york legislature last night marks the beginning of this campaign it kcau be said on authority that the presi dent fully indorses the views of sen â– ator root further it is within the strict i truth to say that senator root might not have taken this stand when be did but for i the urging of the president who was de sirous that the argument recently made by senator borah ln the senate against gov ernor hughes views should oe supple mented in new york by one who is pre to speak with authority to his party followers who will shortly be called upon to act on the proposed amendment great northern limited struck by avalanche near the cascade tunnei nordica to debate on equal suffrage expel broker patterson san francisco march i a se attle dispatch says that not only is a great northern train buried in the snow but that the major portion of the town of wellington has been carried away with a loss of abont sixty lives singer challenges mrs gilbert . e jones of washington and is accepted board of trade managers act ou banurnpt trader o h patterson of the grain commission firm of o h patterson which failed on january 15 was expelled from the chi cago board of trade yesterday for making contracts with other members while his concern was insolvent directors of the board of trade also took up the question of grain dockage at the elevators and ad ministered a rebuke to members who have been violating the rules in insisting upon a dockage of one pound on each 1.000 pounds this the directors resolved is in violation of the spirit of the rules of this board which provide that the official certificate of weights of the board of trade shall be the basis of final settlement new york march i new tork ie to be treated to a battle royal between wom an suffrage and anti-suffrage the scene will be the debating platform with mme lillian nordica defending the interests of the former and mrs gilbert e jones up holding the antis mme nordica threw down the gauntlet to-day and her challenge has been accepted by mrs jones who is president of the na tional league for the civic education of women the antl-euffrage organization the challenge was made and accepted during a luncheon given at the home of mrs william salomon 1020 fifth avenue to mrs huntington denton of paris among the twenty fashionable women pres ent who heard and applauded the proposal were mrs herbert carpenter mrs rich ard lounsberry lillian hamilton french mrs george po haven jr mme guil bcrt and mrs james burden nordica issues challenge mme nordica had been ardently leading in a discussion of suffrage at her table mrs jones who was sittinf at another fable near enough to overhear the con versation arose before the luncheon was well over and announced that she had an important meetiug lo attend besides she said coming over to where madame nordica was sitting if i listened to you much longer my dear i am afraid i should be converted you ought to be answered the singer i think if you had ever had to work for your living or fight your way in the world as i have you would not need conversa tion i think you and i ought to have a debate on it i think i could get the bet ter of you that is a good idea said mrs jones mrs belmont to storm congress washington march i news has reached washington that on april 14 mrs o h p belmont will inarch upon con gress with a small army of suffragettes mid a demand for the passage of a resolu tion providing for an amendment to the constitution removing the ban against women as voters the hev anna shaw of philadelphia will ntteud the demonstration and deliver the chief address the district of colum bia suffragettes will be rallied for the oc casion among other features will be the presentation of a petition bearing a million signatures demanding the rij;tit f suffrage â€” tiiat is te say votes for women mrs beluiout and the rev mrs shaw it is understood will isk for a joint meet ing of congress at which to present their petition in order that one speech-making effort shall suffice if this i refused they will hold a public meeting on the capital steps there is no assurance eveu that the army will not storm the white house offices roosevelts flee fever fatal outbreak occurs day after departure for khartoum gondokoro soudan on the upper nile march i roosevelt luck attended the american hunters and scientists and this time they may be congratulated upon their escape from the african fever mr roosevelt and his associates sailed for khartoum yesterday dr roderic presch a french medical missionary who had lunched with mr roosevelt yesterday died of fever at noon to-day at a camp adjoining that occupied by the americans here an english sportsman is seriously ill and the district commissioner of gondo koro the british officials of which were active in entertaining their american guests has been stricken with the fever hesler case to shift 3 seati'lji wash march i marooned for seven days by snowslides in the cas cade mountains the seattle and spokane limited train on the great northern rail road was struck by an avalanche near wellington wash this mornih and was swept down the mountain side into a gorge where it is now buried under tons of tim ber earth and snow % at least twenty-three possibly forty of the fifty-oue passengers that were on the train when it left spokans were killed the heavy snows have broken the tele graph wires and while the railroad officials admit that several passengers have been killed it is feared that the greater number of those on the train have perished ; this report is strengthened by the fact that relief trains with scores or physicians and nurses on board have been rushed east from seattle and everett wash in an effort to reach the scene of the wreck fear passengers were trapped the railroad officials say that most of the passengers had been transferred to hotels in wellington before the landslide occurred and while efforts were being made to reopen the line but the fact that welllngr tou contains only half a dozen houses in creases the fear that nearly all the passen gers were still occupying the sleeping cars and were trapped in their births when the suowslide which occurred about 4:30 o'clock this morning swept down upon the train the only reports from the wreck have come by carriers from wellington by the way of scenic hot springs wellington is at the western portal of the cascade tunnel which pierces the cascades near their sum mit for a distance of two miles some of the passengers who reached scenic hot springs accompanied superin tendent o'neill when in a heroic effort to secure succor for those oo the train he started out saturday morning for welling ton fear rescuers perished among the others in the o'neill party were g w loveberry a pioneer resident and horseman of georgetown jesse wild er fireman on the great northern j w merritt of spokane former democratic leader in the house of representatives l c joseph of colvffle wash m l horn of wenatcheo j edward ilea of spokane an r a mclean of leavenworth it is now known that some of this party returned to the marooned train and pos 1 kill waterway and commission government i a staff correspondent hi'i'ind field 111 march i revolting against the policies of governor deneen the general assembly to-day burled his cherished waterway plan by killing the schmitt bill to-morrow it will make impossible ac complishment of a number of the enact ments for which be summoned it in special gessioo by adjourning sine die tremendous influence exercised from i washington contributed largely to this re l^ult how soon the governor will issue binother call for a special session to deal the neglected subjects and remedy conditions growing out of the recent su preme court decision in the joyce case is a matter of conjecture that another spe i oal session will follow is generally con ' ceded without question late april or early may is the period considered most likely i 1 the election reform bills for which elec tion officials of Chicago and numerous other cities have fought all winter were smothered lu committee opponents eared to let the bills go to the floor lest t'oeir own members break away on rollcall action to thwart deneen that the same course was not taken with the schmitt bill was due to a desire to avoid giving the governor the strategic advantage of boing able to say the lor imer force asphyxiated it in coai after the public had polled an affirniaii.e vote on the subject the negative spirit that pervaded the i mmm m mk 24 p a 9 e , 2d column dr ames transferred anld and robnctt await removal washington d c march l at the conclusion of the court-martials of pay master george p auld and dr a s rob nett the navy department announced that it would put a stop to the various contro versies at the boston navy yard by sepa rating the little coterie of officers that had been involved dr howard ames director t lie chelsea naval hospital who p led i the charges against auld and iu whose borne jiuld robnett and dr e s cowles ! became embroiled over an alleged insult to , miss dorothy hesler of Chicago dr rob nctt's fiancee teas been ordered to wash ington awaiting orders auld and robnett likewise have been placed awaiting orders for transfer continued on 2d page sth column pcfce wednesday tt il estate and financial section is rvjf rth looking over many excep f^a lal bargains in oity suburban v j d country j j real estate â‚¬